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- Port Multiplier technology supports multi-drive external enclosures over a single eSATA cable at speeds up to 3 Gbps
- Supports hard drives larger than 136GB with 48-bit LBA and both an internal and external port for greater flexibility
- Backed by a StarTech.com lifetime warranty and free lifetime technical support
- 1 external eSATA port and 1 internal SATA port
- Support for FIS and Command-based Port Multiplier technology
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This PCI Express SATA Controller Card allows you to turn a PCI Express (1x) slot into one internal SATA and one external SATA (eSATA) connection. Supporting SATA 300 (SATA II) hard drives and data transfer rates of up to 3Gbps, this controller card is the perfect solution if you need an extra SATA port or want to externalize your storage. The controller card is designed based on a native PCI Express single chipset that provides enhanced compatibility, reliability and performance for your external storage needs. Plus, PEXESATA2I features Port Multiplier support with command based switching for connecting multiple external hard drives to host PC or Mac Desktop through one eSATA connection.
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StarTech.com 1 Port eSATA + 1 Port SATA PCI Express SATA Controller Card - Stora
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Good add-on SATA card - works quite swiftly in conjunction with my external RAID enclosure and supports the elusive SATA Port Multiplier feature, that certain RAID / JBOD implementations require.
I have had some minor issues with the controller in Windows 7 64-bit, suspect that it does not recover from a low power state with the supplied drivers - but this might be due to me having rather a lot of SATA ports in this PC - (9 at last count!). The workaround I've adopted is to temporarily disable then immediately re-enabled the SATA card in Windows Device Manager. This reinitialises the card.
Just a small niggle and one which I may be able to resolve with a bit more time spent on it. If you don't leave your PC unattended for long periods of time - you may never hit this particular issue.
Good value card, good performance - just docking one star for the strange (suspected) power-saving niggle.
I have had some minor issues with the controller in Windows 7 64-bit, suspect that it does not recover from a low power state with the supplied drivers - but this might be due to me having rather a lot of SATA ports in this PC - (9 at last count!). The workaround I've adopted is to temporarily disable then immediately re-enabled the SATA card in Windows Device Manager. This reinitialises the card.
Just a small niggle and one which I may be able to resolve with a bit more time spent on it. If you don't leave your PC unattended for long periods of time - you may never hit this particular issue.
Good value card, good performance - just docking one star for the strange (suspected) power-saving niggle.
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3 reviews
Works well
15 Nov 2011
Amazon Verified Purchase
First off this is based on JMicron. I am not a fan of JMicron as some of their early controllers were pure garbage. However, this controller has worked fine and served me well. I am always leary it will crap out on me but for nearly 6 months it has not flawed once. I typically can get ~75-80MBps transfer on either eSATA or the internal SATA.
Works with the right driver...
18 Aug 2010
I bought a new machine (Dell 9100, core i7-960, 9GB SDRAM, Win7HP, 64-bit) and needed another internal SATA port and another eSATA port. After looking at a couple of choices, I settled on this card. (Another review I had read said it worked with Windows 7, as does StarTech's site.)
Installation was painless, if a bit difficult to decipher due to less than perfect documentation translation. The card worked perfectly with the internal SATA port. Problem arose when you attached an eSATA disk. When you shut down (or restarted) Win7, it would sync the file systems, park the disks, but wouldn't go the last step and actually power off. You had to hold the power button to power off. I tried the drivers that came with the card and the one's on StarTech's website, both failed the same way.
So, it was off to JMicron's web site and downloaded the latest drivers for the JMB36X controller this card uses. (YMMV, it works for me. Version 1.17.57.1 as of when I've written this.)
Works as advertised now. Transfer rates (though I haven't benched it yet) looks okay, shutdown and restart works, eSATA port reports as ejectable. The new drivers even mark the disks correctly in the device manager. (miniport scsi...)
I've let StarTech know, I'll update this if they actually get back to me.
I'd give this 5 stars for a cheap internal/external sata card, one star off for not coming with a working driver. :-)
Installation was painless, if a bit difficult to decipher due to less than perfect documentation translation. The card worked perfectly with the internal SATA port. Problem arose when you attached an eSATA disk. When you shut down (or restarted) Win7, it would sync the file systems, park the disks, but wouldn't go the last step and actually power off. You had to hold the power button to power off. I tried the drivers that came with the card and the one's on StarTech's website, both failed the same way.
So, it was off to JMicron's web site and downloaded the latest drivers for the JMB36X controller this card uses. (YMMV, it works for me. Version 1.17.57.1 as of when I've written this.)
Works as advertised now. Transfer rates (though I haven't benched it yet) looks okay, shutdown and restart works, eSATA port reports as ejectable. The new drivers even mark the disks correctly in the device manager. (miniport scsi...)
I've let StarTech know, I'll update this if they actually get back to me.
I'd give this 5 stars for a cheap internal/external sata card, one star off for not coming with a working driver. :-)
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
No Optical Drive Support
11 Aug 2009
I bought and tried to use 4 different StarTech PCI SATA cards with an Optical Drive (BluRay DVD / CD drive ) I purchased. I finally found out from their engineers that the cards will only work with hard disks, and do not recognize optical devices... however, nothing on their site or any other site states that... go with a chipset other than the Star Tech / Marvell chipset if you need Optical support.
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